Shut Them Down! is an essential collection of reflections on
the movement against the 2005 G8 summit in Gleneagles,
Scotland. As well as action stories from the frontlines of
resistance to the summit, there are detailed accounts of
how various aspects of the mobilisation were organised,
and analysis of the lessons to be learned. But Shut Them
Down!’s relevance extends far beyond the Gleneagles
experience. It addresses fundamental issues such as the
nature of openness and ‘horizontality’, and the limitations
of the ‘activist’ identity. Most important of all, Shut Them
Down! poses the question: how can we take those worlds
we glimpse in such moments and generalise them so that
they make sense in the rest of our lives?